Post-Communist Mafia State: The Case of HungaryCentral European University Press, 1 mar. 2016 - 336 pagini Having won a two-third majority in Parliament at the 2010 elections, the Hungarian political party Fidesz removed many of the institutional obstacles of exerting power. Just like the party, the state itself was placed under the control of a single individual, who since then has applied the techniques used within his party to enforce submission and obedience onto society as a whole. In a new approach the author characterizes the system as the ?organized over-world?, the ?state employing mafia methods? and the ?adopted political family', applying these categories not as metaphors but elements of a coherent conceptual framework. The actions of the post-communist mafia state model are closely aligned with the interests of power and wealth concentrated in the hands of a small group of insiders. While the traditional mafia channeled wealth and economic players into its spheres of influence by means of direct coercion, the mafia state does the same by means of parliamentary legislation, legal prosecution, tax authority, police forces and secret service. The innovative conceptual framework of the book is important and timely not only for Hungary, but also for other post-communist countries subjected to autocratic rules. ÿ |
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... electoral party list does explicitly point to the matter of leadership. Centralized party. The disciplining of the membership began in the early 1990s. The nostalgia for stability broadly felt by the populace and associated with the ...
... electoral defeat of 2002, the organizational remodeling of Fidesz was carried out to reflect the electoral constituencies. Since then the key figures of the ruling elite in each field are designated by the president of the party, that ...
... electoral system—they could not exist. For a secure spread countrywide a minimum of 5–10 thousand committed activists was required. Even with the impetus of their launching, the new political parties had much fewer members than the ...
... electoral district victory. While the socialists had inherited the powerless middle and lower layers of the once truly powerful nomenclature, the story of Fidesz can be described as a reversed process: a chain of hierarchic vassal ...
... electoral decisions not on the basis of rational considerations, but ties of faith. • An intensive process of clientele building that began in the period of 1998–2002, stalled with the lost election of 2002. In the aftermath of the ...
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from the functional disorders of democracy to a critique of the system | 57 |
4 Definition of the postcommunist mafia state | 67 |
a subtype of autocratic regimes | 73 |
6 The legitimacy deficit faced by the mafia state and the means to overcome it | 209 |
the ideological arsenal | 231 |
8 The Criminal State | 255 |
9 Pyramid schemesthe limits of the mafia state | 269 |
Annexes | 297 |
List of accompanying studies | 304 |
Former publications | 306 |
Index of Names | 309 |